[vox-tech] cron - not at a different time

Peter Jay Salzman vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:11:10 -0800


On Wed 03 Mar 04, 10:07 AM, Ken Herron <Kherron@newsguy.com> said:
> 
> 
> --On Wednesday, March 03, 2004 04:38:35 -0800 Peter Jay Salzman 
> <p@dirac.org> wrote:
> 
> >25 4 * * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts --report 
> /etc/cron.daily
> 
> That line will only launch "run-parts" if /usr/sbin/anacron doesn't 
> exist. Does /usr/sbin/anacron exist?
 
ken,

yeah, it does exist.   daily definitely runs.  it just runs at a time i
wasn't expecting.

pete

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